Thoughts On Web

Web page load time is an important factor in web design and development, not only web developers but bloggers and site owners need to optimize their web pages so they load faster or else retaining users will be difficult.

There are many tools which analyze web pages and show you ways to improve load times. Firebug for Firefox is a useful plug-in for analyzing web page CSS, JavaScript, DOM and other stuff.

Google has released a Firefox addon called Page Speed that is integrated with Firebug.  The Page speed add-on when installed adds tabs to Firebug console. Yahoo has a similar addon called YSlow for Firebug that analyzes web pages and suggests improvements for performance of web pages.

Page Speed - firebug tab in action

You can analyze web page performance using this add-on, click on “Analyze Performance” button in the page speed tab in firebug. It gives optimization tips upon examining the web pages. The tips ranges from highly recommended, moderate to least. These tips will provide short description and clicking on the link will take you to page speed documentation where you can read more on how to optimize your site.

The Show Resources link will show you the objects loaded in the web page with the type of the object, file size and transfer size. You might find some scripts and images that are too heavy here, better to get rid of them or minimize them.

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Browsers by Galeel